The review of the indictment against the former director of the Police Administration, Slavko Stojanović, was postponed today in the High Court in Podgorica until May 14.
The defense asked the court to inspect the case files.
At the end of March, the Special State Prosecutor's Office submitted an indictment against Stojanović to the Special Department of the High Court in Podgorica, for the criminal offenses of abuse of official position and illegal possession of weapons and explosive materials.
"From the evidence collected in the reconnaissance and investigation, there is a well-founded suspicion that the defendant, on March 31, 2018, in Podgorica, as an official and public functionary, by unlawfully using his official position and authority, obtained material benefits for others and caused damage to others, and the value of the acquired property benefit exceeds the amount of thirty thousand euros, because, in his capacity as director of the Police Administration of Montenegro, who manages its work, and after learning that his friend's truck with cigarettes was stopped in Podgorica without the necessary documentation and with the intention of preventing the police, in accordance with the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Rulebook on the manner of performing certain police tasks and the application of powers in the performance of those tasks, collect notifications from the truck driver, temporarily confiscate the truck and cigarettes from him, in order to secure items that can be used as evidence and filed a criminal complaint with the state prosecutor, issued an order for the police to let the driver continue driving the truck with cigarettes, and thus obtained a financial benefit for his friend and the truck driver in the amount of the value of the cigarettes, in the amount of 126.000,00 euros, and caused damage to the budget of Montenegro in the amount of unpaid duties, in the amount of 112.504,00 euros, because the cigarettes had to be confiscated," announced state prosecutor and SDT spokesman Vukas Radonjić at the time.
"Also, from the evidence collected in the previous proceedings, there is a well-founded suspicion that the defendant, in November of last year, without a proper weapon certificate, in the family house in Podgorica, kept a firearm - a pistol, which the police found during a search," he added. Radonjic.
He also pointed out that the defendant in his defense "essentially admitted" the criminal acts he was accused of.
"Finally, in the indictment it was proposed that the defendant be sentenced to a security measure of confiscation of the criminal case, but also to extend the supervision measure of the ban on leaving the apartment, in order to ensure his presence in the proceedings, which was imposed on him after he was released from custody," he concluded. in the press release at the time, Radonjić.
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